Egg “painting” – Week 6 of 52 Weeks of Experiences

I am totally behind on posting our weeks. Whenever I travel even for a day, it screws up my posting schedule big time, because there is usually a lot of work I am trying to catch up on otherwise. But I am back and no more travel for a whole week (whoo-hoo!). Then we are once again going away for a while, but I am hoping to steal those naps and evenings to post and work.

WEEK 6 – egg painting

So last week I was supposed to post about the Egg Dying that almost occurred. Except for, instead of egg dying, we decided to do some EGG PAINTING. Lexi loves painting outside, so after our Easter activities out on the town, we came to our house with Alexa (Lexitwin) and had an egg painting session.

The girls took to it immediately and had a lot of fun, as evidenced by the fact that they were busy and quiet for probably a good hour, while we hung out and took pictures.

A few times Lexi dropped an egg on the floor and it would crack, so she would frown and walk up to it and go “Oh-oh! Egg broke“, and stand there “upset” for a little bit. Then she decided to see what would happen if she stepped on it and continued going “Oh-oh!” (picture below).

I always find it interesting how when she spills or drops something, she then has to see what happens if she spills/drops the rest of whatever she is holding. I even have a video I posted on Instagram a while ago when she accidentally spills some milk while cheering and then flips the cup over completely as if “well, now that it’s spilled, I might as well dump the whole thing on myself”.

After this activity, I have to say that for this age group, I like the idea of painting eggs much more than dyeing eggs, since it’s a more of a hands on activity.

Next week (which is this week really), I am hoping to do one of these:
gather shells, go to a train museum, go on a family bike ride through the woods, pick fruit at a farm.

We’ll see what will actually happen.

This week’s post is coming up later in the week and Lexi RODE A ROLLERCOASTER!!!! There is even a video of how awesomely terrifying it was 🙂

Corinne

April 28, 2014 at 7:39 PM

We painted eggs too. It was absolutely more hands-on for her age than dying. It’s so boring! When C placed the eggs down a little too hard on the table, it cracks and she also ‘got upset’ and said “mommy it broke.. Can you fix it?” I explained it can’t be fixed but she can peel the shell and eat it! Then that’s all she wanted to do haha

Irina

April 28, 2014 at 11:00 PM

Egg coloring is always fun!!! we colored the eggs this time, using the natural eco coloring kit. It was actually pretty good. Not too messy and my 2 year old did OK with waiting for the eggs to color. She enjoyed breaking them and eating the yolks, so we ended up with 6 colored eggs out of 12. 🙂

She is in the shade in most pics, while Alexa is in the sun. Their skin tone is pretty much the same.
Not sure about left-handedness, it’s too early to tell as she is still ambidextrous at this point. But she does use her left hand a lot.

Hubbs has been on a protein-heavy diet this past little while, so I have been handling eggs all week long (every morning for breakfast)! Never even crossed my mind to paint them! But DD seems to not like eating them in any form, although she likes holding the raw eggs gingerly as my baking helper! She channels her inner Miss Elaina when I break them – “Hey! Who broke the egg..?” said suspiciously 😉 But I think I might paint them too, next year! I have never really understood the appeal of dyed eggs, and I hate the smell of vinegar! Did the tempera paint work well? I’d love to find something that dries quickly and is non-toxic!

Kay

April 29, 2014 at 12:37 PM

I think this was a awesome idea! I tried the whole clouring eggs in cups thing and she got bored after the first 5 min. You are right that painting them I much more hands on! We shall have to do that next year!

Thanks!! I’ve always loved it. It’s small and quaint, but its full of the kid favorite animals, shaded and almost secluded in a more rural area. The deer forest part is so much fun and is absolutely GORGEOUS in the fall, my friend even had her engagement photos taken there.

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